Upcoming Event Reminder! Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010 Time: 7:30:00 PM
Event: Austrian Economist Thomas E. Woods @ Hampden-Sydney College Description: The Libertarian Party preaches free-market economics, and one of the academics who speaks the same language of the market is Thomas E. Woods, Jr. On Thursday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m., Dr. Woods will be appearing at Hampden-Sydney College (Crawley Forum). Dr. Woods will discuss his book, "Melt Down: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse", and other areas of economics. Dr. Woods is the New York Times bestselling author of nine books. A senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Woods holds a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard and his master's, M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Woods notes that H-SC employs two professors who collaborated on this prize-winning article on Austrian business cycle theory: http://www.gmu.edu/depts/rae/archives/VOL14_4_2001/4_carilli&dempster.pdf Of Woods' book, Ron Paul said: "We can probably expect an avalanche of books in the coming months that purport to tell us what happened to the economy and what we should do about it. They'll be dead wrong, and most of the advice they provide will be dreadful. You can count on that. "That's why Meltdown is different. This book actually gets things right. It correctly identifies our problems, their causes, and what we should do about them. It treats the architects of this debacle not with the undeserved reverence they receive in Washington and on television, but with the critical eye that is so conspicuously missing from our supposedly independent thinkers in academia and the media. Tom Woods reserves his admiration for those few who, unlike the quacks who would instruct us now, actually saw the crisis coming, have a theory to explain it, and can show us the way out. "In a short span, Tom Woods introduces the layman to a range of subjects that have been excluded from our national discussion for much too long. Topics our opinion leaders thought they'd buried forever, or never heard of in the first place, are suddenly back, and not a moment too soon. This book is an indispensable conduit of these critical ideasÂ…. "Ideas still matter, and sound economic education has rarely been as urgently necessary as it is today. There is no better book to read on the present crisis than this one, and that is why I am delighted to endorse and introduce it." Location: Crawley Forum Hampden-Sydney College 80 College Road Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943 Web Site: http://www.thomasewoods.com/ Map: http://www.hsc.edu/map/ Directions: http://www.hsc.edu/visitors/ For More Information, Contact: , 434-223-6000 ############################################################# Have an announcement you'd like to post? SCC members & many committee heads are all authorized to post; or you may send your announcements to the List Master: [email protected] ################################################## Unsubscribe Send an email to [email protected] with no subject and "Unsubscribe Announce" as the text. Unsubscribe ############################################################# Libertarian Party of Virginia http://www.LPVA.com
